and even though the author is right about the decline in use of the GPL, we can't forget that if RMS didn't start the GNU project, the FOSS community wouldn't be where it is now, What license do you think the Linux kernel will be released under if the GPL wasn't around?
How long before the leaders of the FOSS movement take Microsoft to court to discover what patents the linux kernel infringes on (IANAL, so I don't know the legal term.)
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and even though the author is right about the decline in use of the GPL, we can't forget that if RMS didn't start the GNU project, the FOSS community wouldn't be where it is now, What license do you think the Linux kernel will be released under if the GPL wasn't around?
How long before the leaders of the FOSS movement take Microsoft to court to discover what patents the linux kernel infringes on (IANAL, so I don't know the legal term.)
If Mr. Backus hadn't developed fortran, would we be as advanced scientificaly as we are now?